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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.
(a) Wild ride.
(b) Power trip.
(c) True ego.
(d) Death trip.

2. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.
(a) Extreme.
(b) Abject.
(c) Duly earned.
(d) True.

3. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.
(a) Official.
(b) True.
(c) Possible.
(d) Real.

4. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.
(a) Teachers.
(b) Students.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Moralists.

5. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.
(a) Nature.
(b) Children.
(c) People.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.

2. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?

3. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.

4. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.

5. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.

(see the answer key)

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